Is there any way to save a movie project so that the clips you made (plus or minus the ones that 'create clips' made) will be saved???

That is to say, I've split my long raw wmv file into separate clips, but have not placed them in the timeline yet. When I saved the project, and attempted to reopen it, the clips that I made is no longer-- as if it never saved it in the first place.

However, if I had gone ahead and place particular clips in the timeline in the order I wanted, then saved the project, then reopened the project-- the timeline I did is there. But once again, the various clips I made from the one big wmv is no longer.

I would have to start again with going thru the video and separate them into clips again. There has to be away to save them, yes??

They should save in your collection. If you edit clips in your collection to trim them, delete them, rename them, split them, etc. all those edits should be remembered. I suspect that all your changes are there, but somehow you are no longer looking at the same collection folder. Collections get organized into folders and subfolders. Look in the Collection drop-down to see if you aren't looking in the wrong folder.

Blaine,
Yes, I remember opening the collections before and it was there. How about in situations where you are working from an external harddrive and using different computers, ie. college computer center. Everything in a particular project, I put in one folder (eg. raw files, music, and saved project file) so the project file will recognize where everything was. But, it seems like if I move from one computer to another, the collections is lost. Is there a way to save the collections and its respective edits?

I have a problem related to this. I have several DVDs of wmv files and I want to put together different compilations for different people. So I need to be able to save clips from different DVDs to compile. I cannot take a DVD out of the drive without it losing the file. Is there a solution? In other words, can I save clips of a file so that the computer does not need the original whole file to find the clip?